Goodbye to a River - Softcover

Graves, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932012752 ISBN 13: 9780932012753

Publisher: Taylor Wilson Pub, 1984

Synopsis

The author recounts his three-week journey down the Brazos River in an attempt to recapture its colorful past

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In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream's regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth.
Goodbye to a River" is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river's people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.

About this edition

• Publisher: Taylor Wilson Pub
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0932012752
• ISBN 13: 9780932012753
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306